Reuters - Bob Dylan's recent trifecta of "Time Out of Mind," "Love and Theft" and "Modern Times" represents the kind of late-career renaissance so many stars shoot for and nobody achieves.

AP - Jazz crooner Tony Bennett handed out dozens of new instruments Thursday to students at a charter school founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping the tubas, trumpets and trombones would be used to carry on New Orleans' vibrant musical tradition.

AP - Singer Tony Bennett is donating a watercolor he made of jazz great Duke Ellington to a Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

The Lunchbox Auction has returned for another year with more sandwich containers designed by famous people for charity. This year's crop includes designs from Bright Eyes, Michael Stipe, Beastie Boys, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright, Tony Bennett, the Ting Tings, Ellen Page, Salman Rushdie, Gwyneth Paltrow, and the cast of "Gossip Girl" ...

Tony Bennett's "Winter Wonderland" and Harry Connick, Jr.'s "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" can be downloaded free of charge on iTunes